1.Types of Paper

Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original nursing research report, academic papers, review articles and clinical research.

Manuscripts should be innovative, scientific, advanced and practical, with clear arguments, ample evidence, accurate data and sound logical reasoning. They should be rigorously structured, well organized, and use refined sentences exhibiting standardized language and terminology.

 

2.Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.

Ensure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address

All necessary files have been uploaded:
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files(where applicable)
Supplemental files(where applicable)

Further considerations
• Manuscript has been ’spell checked’ and ’grammar checked’
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements

 

3. Submission declaration and verification

The journal accepts only previously unpublished manuscripts. Manuscripts cannot be published in multiple journals.

If an author wishes to submit the manuscript to another publication, please contact us first. If the journal learns that an article has been submitted to multiple publications, we will issue a declaration and will not publish any articles by the author.

 

4. Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1. A summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double-blind) or the manuscript file (if single-blind). If there are no interests to declare then please state this: ’Declarations of interest: none’. This summary statement will be ultimately published if the article is accepted. 2. Detailed disclosures as part of a separate Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the journal’s official records. It is important for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches.

 

5.Changes to authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.

 

6.Open access
This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where Shanxi Medical Periodical Press pays the OA fee. Authors do not have to pay any open access publication fee. Peer review under the responsibility of Shanxi Medical Periodical Press.

 

7.Submission

Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare your article. Via the homepage of this journal (https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/cnnr) you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor’s decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author’s homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail. If you are unable to provide an electronic version, please contact the editorial office prior to submission (E-mail: hlyjywb@vip.163.com; telephone: +86 (0)351 2508869; or fax: +86 (0)351 4639 626).

Important news:

All papers are subjected to a fair peer-review process, and will immediately appear online available. From Jan. 2019 to Dec. 2019 our Journal welcomes  submission and does not charge  publication fee and review fee.